I am unwell .. Is it Sad or a Blessing in disguise ... Thank you God

Strange seems to be the title of my new post. Infact it is.. It is during one of these days , i am coming up with a blog.

Its the 6th of June , 2007.

I am down with viral fever since 3 days. Its sad that all these 3 days are working days. My sick leaves at my organization are all over , and my annual leaves have to be applied now. Some people say this affects ur appraisal (since i am in my First Year @ this very organization ) . Well who cares !!!!!

I ve never worked for appraisals , and i will never work for appraisals.

Though I am quite upset , tat i am unable to be present @ the office premises , due to my illness , but still I feel this whole chapter is a blessing in disguise.

Everytime i take leave during working days , I am pleased to mention that I get to spend the maximum time for myself. Myself means me all alone . I am locked up all alone in my room , no one to disturb, where I get to interact with myself. I do listen to a lot of music during this time.

I call it a blessing in disguise , as I get time to rethink my strategies , restructure my goals and objectives and above all read a book to the fullest.

I get all the time in this world , to plan and come up with steps , which will eventually help me establish a , work - personal life balance.

Everytime I fall ill and take leave during workdays , I wish to find a book , which inspires me to go back to my organization with altogether a new look , new set of goals and objectives.

The last time I was ill during a workday , I remember reading " The Greatness Guide " by Robin Sharma for a second time . A truly inspirational book , no matter how many times I read it. Prior to that I was reading " Wise and Otherwise " by Sudha Murthy which is another awesome inspirational book .

This time too I was fortunate enough to find one such awesome book . Its none other than " The High Performance Entrepreneur " by Subroto Bagchi.

Folks might be wondering , Is this guy behind opening a new organization ??? . Well absolutely incorrect. Its not that I want to build an organization from scratch , that i read this book but I am a huge fan or Mr Subroto Bagchi's writing.

I am totally impressed by his column " Times of Mind " for the Times of India , the article " The Fallen Tomato Cart " being my all time favorite.

I dont read Times of India though , I read his postings from the archive maintained at the official MindTree website.

When I found this book @ my place , I could not resist reading it . I ve no words to describe the book , One of its kind.

After having read the book , I feel totally inspired . I have also come up with a " two month planner " , where in I have pinned down my goals and objectives .

One of them includes , getting technically more stronger..

I would like to thank God for this blessing in disguise , for forcing me to slow down , to take a break , to take time out of my regular routine , to rethink , come up with a new plan and above all spend some awesome time with myself.

This blog makes loads of sense to me ,, well about others , please provide feedback